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Oh, btw, you can buy ballistic shields for something over $100 for loading and unloading and "dry fire" practice (in case it is not so dry).

These guys: http://safedirection.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; make several versions, some small enough to take along in your luggage, some integrated into pistol cases, and the like. You can get rifle-rated versions too (they are a bit heavy to tote around tho, so if you want one just for your handgun, don't go for the rifle-rated one.)

There's a video at their site of John Farnam unloading and loading a pistol with one, and then he fires a round (.45 ACP looks like) into it to demonstrate.

Gunner21 wrote: ...As for my Wife and Son not waking up? Yeah I was pretty amazed at that. I usually sleep with one eye open, I dunno guess they're deep sleepers.

I know of another ND in the house (not me!) where a guy launched one through his leg early in the morning. No one else in the house woke up.

Sound dissipates pretty fast with distance and changes in mediums (e.g. air to drywall to airspace to drywall, back to air, etc).

I once slept through a bear invasion of our campsite. Everyone else was yelling and screaming and banging metal pots and pans. I was catching some Zs.

So where did you find the bullet? Was it contained in the display?

Good lesson, really. Relativly cheap, considering, and no one got hurt.